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liftman BrE
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elevator operator AmE
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I suppose they'll be going for lift attendants if they get this idea through.

She was thinking of getting rid of the lift attendants anyway.

It was important, he said, not to go out smelling of wine: the lift attendants were very observant.

This season, for the first time, one Colorado resort won permission to import nannies, lift attendants and restaurant workers.

He turned to the lift attendant.

'How about taking me on as a lift attendant?'

Ski patrols, lift attendants and restaurant staff are uniformly cheerful and helpful.

Ninety percent of the area's operations are volunteered, including ticket sellers, lift attendants, bookkeepers, and maintenance.

Like the tower, Saghol, the ground-floor lift attendant, had been cleaned up for the occasion.

By the time he reached home he was in the darkest of moods, scowling at the innocent lift attendant and slamming through his front door.

The lift attendant pointed out Mont Blanc, Europe's noble 15,765-foot pinnacle, 40 miles away.

A lift attendant in uniform was in charge of what was most likely the first elevator in Bergen.

When she asked a lift attendant for help, he phoned the resort office and asked the computer technicians to check the rosters at nearby chairlifts.

The lift attendant there is unaware of any problems, saying that Graves, the Count's man, left half an hour earlier with no indication of anything wrong.

"When the skier attendance is lower than the number of lift attendants, it's time to close," said Orville Slutzky, general manager.

When the Doctor arrives in the lift, he says "First Floor, Perfumery", in the manner of a department store lift attendant.

Jan Holt, director, explains: 'I realised something had to be done when, on a recent trip abroad, I was mistaken for the hotel lift attendant.'

("A Letter of Introduction" and "Startling Dressiness of a Lift Attendant")

Like Spirou, Velter began his career as a lift attendant at age 16, in the London Ritz Charlton.

Stuck with him are a number of visitors to the Centre and one or two employees including of course, the lift attendant plyed by Hugh Lloyd."

If your skiing is normally ruined by disrespect for British queueing principles or by surly shepherds doing winter duty as lift attendants, these matters will weigh heavily.

As I moved into position for my first ride up, the lift attendant, who must have heard me speaking English with Anne, looked at me earnestly and said, "Jump."

Not long ago, such lines were nonexistent and a skier would be ready to hop aboard before the lift attendant had time to swat new snow off the chair with a broom.

'They seem to be dressed either as hell's angels in leather jackets and sunglasses or as Italian lift attendants with more brass and braid than a colliery band.'

During this time, Kevin visits his father (Jay O. Sanders), a ski lift attendant, in an attempt to gain some advice about his impending divorce from Leanne.

Five minutes later we speak to the lift man, and having heard what he says, we also go up to the third floor.

Kites are recorded in ancient Chinese history as being used for lifting men.

Religion should lift men up, not be used as an excuse to kill and destroy."

Then he hurries out, mentioning the guests to the lift man in passing.

The night lift man is a great reader.

By the end of that year he was regularly using the kite to lift men above 100 ft (30.5 m).

We were among the first to use contact work, to have women lifting men, and to be singing and speaking on stage."

Women lifted men.

A herd of mammoths was being driven into the village; and the great beasts were lifting men, women, and children to their backs.

Roberts, the lift man, will take you up and introduce you; but I'm afraid you won't find anything that's of any use.

Ms. Rehman has lifted men in performances before, including several prominent Norwegians.

It shows the many watermills used in mining, such as the machine for lifting men and material into and out of a mine shaft, see image.

A couple of minutes' guarded conversation revealed that for the twenty years prior to the Excelsior's demolition, Buster had been its lift man.

The Crying Game - Lift Man - (1992)

There was an exchange of glances; then, with a roar of delighted laughter, they lifted man and desk and began to carry them across the floor.

In personal contact, he had some strange indefinable power that lifted men above themselves, that brought out in them something they had never known to exist.

This was where his heart lay, where the helicopters waited to lift men into mountain combat, and the radio chattered the co-ordinates for Ilyushin strikes.

Ms. Driver may have women lift men and carry them about just as, for centuries, men have lifted and carried women in dances.

Likewise, science alone can not fully account the sustaining spiritual forces that lift man and culture beyond the limitations of practical necessity, adaptation and natural selection.

NASA plans to use the next-generation rocket it to lift manned space shuttles into orbit well into the next century.

So degraded, so vicious, so cunning, so sly, so lacking in everything that lifted man above the level of the lower animals!

Ancient and medieval Chinese sources list other uses of kites for measuring distances, testing the wind, lifting men, signaling, and communication for military operations.

The terrible lances bore down upon them, splintering shields and lifting men from their feet, dashing them bloody and broken to the dusty ground.

Part One FATE What song is this, drift through the trees To lift men broken from their knees?

The helicopter borne assault of 45 Commando was the first time helicopters were used by UK Forces to lift men directly into a combat zone.

He asked the elevator attendant to direct him to the offices of the firm.

The uniformed elevator attendant stared at him blankly.

I looked at the elevator attendant and explained to him that my son was upset because, even at this young age, he just did not like to shop.

So he showed the elevator attendants the pass the el-bower had given him, and took the long elevator ride down the wall of South Circle.

In 1924, she was hired as an elevator attendant at the all-male Minneapolis Athletic Club, earning $15 per week.

Betty Lou Oliver, an elevator attendant, survived the impact and a subsequent uncontrolled descent in the elevator.

He liked the folding bronze safety-gate; it reminded him of an old hotel he'd once stayed in that actually had an elevator attendant, little red uniform and all.

We were stopped by the lobby elevator attendant, who said we couldn't go up because Kate was wearing sneakers, and no sneakers were allowed after 4 P.M.

When, as newlyweds, she and her husband, James, moved into the building at 127th Street in the late 1940's, it boasted a marble lobby, a doorman and elevator attendants.

As in so many of Levinson's films from Diner (1982) to Liberty Heights (1999), Ralph Tabakin appears, this time as an Elevator Attendant.

"Fear nothing," she said again, but next second I was never more full of fear in my life, for we were whirling downwards at a speed that would have made an American elevator attendant turn pale.

In 1973, 45 East 66th Street was acquired by a builder, Sigmund Sommer, who cut back some services, discharged the elevator attendant and replaced incandescent lighting with fluorescent in the hallways.

Betty Lou Oliver (July 9, 1925 - March 8, 1994) is best known as the 1940s elevator attendant for the Empire State Building who survived two large accidents on the same day.

EVE Mimi had two more vodka Collins and when the three of us left the dining room and were taking the elavator upstairs, she fell against the elevator attendant and almost passed out.

Far from being a savage satirist, sending up everybody from room service to the elevator attendant, Mr. Zappa proved merely to be intelligent, coherent, amusing, sincere and capable of providing a verbal spectacular of anecdotes.

His first experience of civilisation involves the "funny box" inside a department store, which he rides up and down, over and again, until the elevator attendant steps in: "It's not a toy," he says, before sending the naughty elephant on his way.

CHOICES MICKEY KNEW A LOT ABOUT the colonies; working as an elevator attendant , he'd met a lot of outbound colonists.

This myth is fueled by the story of an elevator attendant found alive but badly injured in an elevator car that had fallen 75 stories down a shaft in the Empire State Building after a B-25 Mitchell bomber crashed into it in 1945.

The novel's narrator wryly notes that his parvenu friend Bloch thinks the letter i in English is always pronounced as in life, but he omits to add that the correct French expression for elevator attendant is not laift but liftier, although many people would say lift.

The elevator man said he was still in his office.

With the elevator man I decided not to speak at all.

The elevator man had come back and was standing there.

The elevator man turned his head and winked at me.

He explained how the elevator man had given him the address.

This time, it was the missing elevator man who got in the way.

It was almost time for the elevator men to change shifts.

Peering along the hall, the elevator man saw something else.

The elevator man did not seem to know or care that the public would be entering at the end of the show.

It's a world where people are brought together by their elevator men."

I do remember that the elevator man giggled when he saw me.

He was corroborated in his story by the elevator man.

The clerk and the elevator man are going back on duty.

The elevator man said something to the cop and he went towards the kitchen.

The elevator man let a passenger off at the eighth floor.

The elevator man pointed to an open door, leading to the roof.

The elevator man asked us to name a floor.

Of course, we require the fake elevator man that you provided.

The elevator man leaned over the window counter to listen.

The elevator man smiled at her as they crossed the lobby toward him.

For Harry was telling his story not just to the hotel clerk and the elevator man.

It was Monte, calling good night to the elevator man, then telling him to wait.

One look at the chunky frozen face was all the elevator man needed.

"Yeah, but if it's that kind, why does this joint have an elevator man?"

Give me the apartment number and a pass or whatever else that elevator man needs to make him act human."